How to fix “The attribute [password] either does not exist or was not retrieved for model [App\Models\User]” error in Laravel

When using Socialite, magic links, or another form of passwordless authentication, Laravel complains that the password field does not exist on the User model. Common advice online is to either make the password column ->nullable(), or generate a random password when users sign up.

However, there’s a cleaner solution. Simply override the $authPasswordName property on the User model.

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    // Add this line
    protected $authPasswordName = null;
}

Now you can use Auth::login($user) to manually authenticate users without requiring a weird vestigial password field.